290 B.C. - events and references (original) (raw)

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EGY ?? Apelles' painting of "Calumny" is a retort to his opponents in the court of Ptolemy.
@ Plin:HN_35'89; Lucian:Cal_2-6.

AEG ++ General comments on the paintings of Apelles.
* Read Suda's account
@ Herod_4'57-78; Plin:HN_35'42, '79-97;L Lucian:Im_7; Suda_A'3008;* { ~ OCD�.}

GRE ++ General comments on the paintings of Aristeides of Thebes.
@ Plin:HN_35'98-100; { Plinius says that Aristides was a contemporary of Apelles.}

<< Deinarchus, as an old man, brings a prosecution against Proxenus, which is the first time that he has spoken in court.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ DionHal:Din_3, 12; Plut:Mor_850'E;* { ~ OCD�.}

++ General comments on the public career of Deinarchus.
@ Suda_D'333.

ITA ?? C.Laetorius, a military tribune, is condemned to death for assaulting a tent-mate.
* Read Dionysius' account
@ DionHal_16.4'1-3;* ValMax_6.1'11; Suda_G'13; { At an unknown date towards the end of the Samnite wars.}

Curius defeats the Samnites.
* Read St.Jerome's account
@ Appian:Sam_5;(12) [Vict]:VirIll_33'1; Eutrop_2.9'3; +Hieron:Chron_1726.*

Peace between Rome and the Samnites; the end of the Third Samnite War.
* Read Livy's account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_11;* Appian:Pun_58; +Eutrop_2.9'4; { CAH_7.2'665; OCD�.}

GRE Demetrius holds the Pythian games at Athens, instead of Delphi.
@ ~Plut:Demetr_40'7-8; { Errington_p83; Green_126-127.}

ROM The triumph of Curius, over the Samnites.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Sen_55;* ~[Liv]:Per_11; Plut:CatMai_2'1; DioCass_fr.37'1; [Vict]:VirIll_33'1-2; Schol:Bob_80.

ETR Curius defeats the Sabines.
* Read Florus' account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_11; Frontin:Str_1.8'4; Flor_1.10'1-3;* +Hieron:Chron_1726; Oros_3.22'11; { CAH_7.2'380.}

ROM The second triumph of Curius, over the Sabines.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Sen_55;* ~[Liv]:Per_11; [Vict]:VirIll_33'3; { ~ OCD�.}

Curius distributes allotments of land to Roman citizens.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ ValMax_4.3'5; Plin:HN_18'18;L Plut:Mor_194'E;* [Vict]:VirIll_33'5-6; +Hieron:Chron_1726; { CAH_7.2'665; but Valerius Maximus dates this to 275 B.C. or later.}

EPI == Lanassa leaves Pyrrhus, and becomes the wife of Demetrius, who thus gains control of Corcyra.
@ Plut:Pyrrh_10'7; { CAH_7.2'461; Green_224.}

ETR >> Sabines are granted Roman citizenship, without the right of suffrage.
@ Vell_1.14'6; { CAH_7.2'380; OCD�.}

ROM >> P.Rufinus becomes blind after a dream.
@ Plin:HN_7'166.

++ The triumphant career of Fabius Rullianus.
* Read Livy's account
@ Liv_30.26'8;* [Vict]:VirIll_32'2.

?? The death of Fabius Rullianus.
@ [Vict]:VirIll_32'4; { The last mention of Fabius is during the consulship of his son, in 292 B.C.}